“It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”
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“Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
“I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.”
“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.”
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”
“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.”
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
“Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.”
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”